The Dark Star: The Planet X Evidence (11 page)

So,
a Dark Star located more than 20,000 times as far away from the sun than the
Earth is by no means impossible. It may form in that region in its own right,
as part of a dense star-forming cluster inclusive of the sun’s proto-planetary
Disk, or it may have been captured later on (though this seems less likely).

There may be a dynamic principle in place as well, whereby such an
object is itself perturbed into a close approach to the sun, rather like a
comet. There are many gravitational influences outside the solar system which
could create such an event, and this scenario would allow us to overlap the
existence of a very distant binary object with an observed phenomenon many,
many thousands of years ago.
²¹

According
to the independent researcher John Lee, a brown dwarf lying in the Oort Cloud
at tens of thousands of Astronomical Units could have swept past the solar
system after interactions with various external gravitational influences.
²²
I think this is a viable proposition. The problem with talking about such an
idea is that it is a complex scenario, and this puts a lot of people off. But
it definitely has its merits, satisfying both the Nemesis and Tenth Planet
scenarios simultaneously.

Let
me briefly spell out the basics of such an idea: The Dark Star would be in an
unstable orbital configuration, easily disturbed by outside influences.
Millions of years ago, it was moving along the kind of path advocated by Drs.
Murray and Matese. That is, a roughly circular orbit over 20,000 AU away. This
caused the initiation of movement of long-period comets to drift down towards
the sun. Scientists observe those comets today, recording their movements. Some
have wondered whether there are patterns to be found, establishing the
existence of a distant planet in the outer Oort Cloud.

There
is a cause-and-effect taking place over millions of years; the cause being the
disturbance of comets in the outer Oort cloud at the Dawn of Humanity, and the
effect being the observation of those same comets by modern-day astronomers.

However, in the meantime, the Dark Star itself is jolted from its
orbit towards the sun. It also acts like a comet, and takes on a new,
elliptical orbit. This then changes the energy configurations of the planets in
the solar system, which we will ponder upon later.

Scientists may then detect the presence of the Dark Star by looking
at the affect it has had more recently on the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt.

In other words, the Dark Star causes two sets of data to emerge,
but over different time frames. Its dynamic orbit creates a complex picture
which seems to indicate two bodies, when there is in reality just one. The
constellation Sagittarius thus becomes the location of the ‘jolt’ that sent the
Dark Star into its new orbit, and probably shifted a significant set of comets
from that part of the sky in so doing. So, it is simultaneously the location of
Murray’s sub-brown dwarf, and my Dark Star at aphelion, or the most distant
point of its present elliptical orbit.

If the Dark Star had been perturbed into a ‘close’ approach past
the solar system millions of years ago - therefore creating the kind of effects
recently discovered in the outer solar system ― it may yet be awaiting
discovery within the boundaries of the inner Oort Cloud.

The reader will now appreciate the sheer variety of science-based
possibilities, to which may be added one or two more.

T
he Latest Binary Theorists

In the autumn of 2003, an organization called the Binary Research
Institute produced a well-written, scientific-style paper that appeared on the
Internet. It was accompanied by a professionally produced website complete
with eye-catching graphics and charts, and more recently a promotional video.
The authors of this well-financed work also favour a Binary system solution,
and used it to argue a radical new explanation for the observed Precession of
the Equinoxes.

They also speculated about a Dark Companion to the sun located
over 1000 AU away, but this time large enough to create a measurable effect
upon the sun’s own movement. This is a radical suggestion.
²³

The problem for Walter Cruttenden and Vince Dayes, who wrote the
article, is that their calculated size for the companion body is huge; either a
full-blown massive brown or red dwarf, or a normal star. In order to provide
the appropriately stretched centre of mass for the solar system, their
companion body quickly becomes far too large to have evaded detection.
Although, they add in that the highly elliptical nature of the companion’s
orbit may mean that it currently resides up to 20 times further away than these
average figures suggest.
²³

Cruttenden and Dayes advocate an orbital period of about 24,000
years, close to the known precessional cycle. They would presumably argue that
for the body to have evaded discovery it must be near to aphelion, and so many
thousands of astronomical units away, which is on the order of John Matese’s
brown dwarf. Except that Matese’s small brown dwarf took a few million years to
orbit the sun at that distance.
¹⁸

To be able to cover that amount of ground in a mere 12,000 years,
seems nothing short of miraculous. Unfortunately, such a break-neck trajectory
would send their binary star into a hyperbolic orbit, and thus fling it out of
the entire solar system. Which presents a bit of a problem.

A massive object large enough to affect the sun’s own movement
cannot lie close by at the present time, and must be located in the outer Oort
cloud, in order to have evaded detection. But, such a distance implies an orbit
substantially greater than 24,000 years, or else the object is lost through
achieving an escape velocity from the sun. I faced this same dilemma. The only
answer is to have a smaller body or a recent change in its orbit. Neither of
these would be consistent with the proposed explanation for the Precession of
the Equinoxes put forward by the Binary Research Institute.

Nevertheless, the authors do have some very interesting things to
say about the angular momentum of the solar system
²⁴
, and describe
the importance of the "sheer edge" within the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt.
But, like John Bagby before them, their final proposal seems too ambitious to
be viable. So, like Bagby, I would recommend their work for its originality and
thought-provoking material, but I would be wary about their implied
conclusions.

Another
previous advocate of the Binary Theory is the author Joseph H. Cater. He argues
in his book “The Ultimate Reality,” that Mars is partially warmed by the rays
of a binary star.
²⁵
This is quite impossible, of course; at least
insofar as no solar binary is sufficiently close or bright enough to affect the
climate of one of the sun’s inner planets. At least, according to the physical
laws of the Universe as we currently understand them.

These
latter examples are simply two of the myriad sets of theories offered
concerning Planet X and binary star companions. The apparent lack of interest
in this subject displayed by actual astronomers doesn’t seem to be because they
don’t think about these ideas; it’s just that they don’t particularly want to
be seen thinking about them. A vacuum has emerged within this particular niche
of science, which allows independent thinkers to propose sometimes radical
ideas.

I
am one of those independent-minded researchers as well, of course. I am acutely
aware of how many others are rolling similar ideas around in their minds. The
result has been an explosion of speculation about Planet X over the Internet,
and a confusing, often mystifying set of theories. One of the aims of this book
is to bring some greater focus upon the subject.

It
is as clear as there is day and night that we are not living in a ‘real’ binary
star system. If we talk in terms of a ‘binary’ companion to the sun, then we
are at best discussing a dwarf star at a very considerable distance; or a
‘failed’ star; or small brown dwarf, residing among the comets. As we have seen,
many people have advocated such a view over the last few decades, from esteemed
university professors, to those often labeled as ‘crank’ alternative theorists.

As
far as I can see, there is a wide spectrum of possibilities, and some of those
possibilities are quite plausible. Given the results of various deep-space
analytical data, I don’t think anyone should entirely dismiss the possibility
of a substantial Planet X object awaiting discovery.

Over the next few chapters, we will explore various pieces of scientific
evidence which have emerged in the last few years that considerably strengthen
the case for the existence of a binary companion of some description, awaiting
actual discovery. Some of that evidence is actually compelling, taking the form
of anomalous data which flies in the face of our orthodox understanding of the
solar system. Other pieces of evidence are from other star systems, where
precedents exist for the kind of models that I am proposing.

For example, the Epsilon Indi B object is a clear example of a
reasonably large brown dwarf orbiting its parent star at the kind of distance
which I would advocate for our Dark Star around the sun. This testifies to the
potential for such an object to be found at about 1500 AU, because whatever
arguments may be put forward theoretically for questioning how that could have
come about, it clearly already has; elsewhere.

"The failed star and its companion form a wide binary system,
separated by more than 1,500 times the distance between the sun and the Earth...Astronomers
estimate that Epsilon Indi B has a mass just 45 times that of Jupiter, the
largest planet in our solar system, and a surface temperature of only 1,000
Celsius".
²⁶

Other star systems also provide some wonderful precedents, and
many of the new discoveries of extrasolar planets are wonderful and diverse,
challenging astronomers to think again about accepted dogma. They require us to
remain open-minded, and to remember that the unexpected is no stranger to
scientific progress. There are no stranger planetary objects than brown dwarfs,
of course, and their existence is no longer simply speculation, but hard
scientific fact. In the next chapter we will explore the realm of these strange
celestial characters.

¹
J. d’Arc “Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form”
pp43-4, The Book Tree 2000

²
E. Plunket “Calendars and Constellations of the Ancient World”
(1903) pp227-8, Random House 1997

³
A. Gilbert “Signs in the Sky” Corgi 2000



⁴
R. Bauval & A. Gilbert “The Orion Mystery” Mandarin 1995

⁵
E. C. Krupp “In Search of Ancient Astronomies” p218, Penguin 1984

⁶
W. Corliss “The Sun and Solar system Debris - A Catalog of
Astronomical Anomalies” p172, 1986. With thanks to Greg Jenner

⁷
“Redfern, Martin, and Henbest, Nigel; "Has IRAS Found a
Tenth Planet?" New Scientist, 10/11/1983

⁸
Z. Sitchin “Genesis Revisited” p326-8 Avon 1990

⁹
Enuma Elish Tablet VII, 125-133

¹⁰
Enuma Elish Tablet V, 1-10

¹¹
R. Kerrod “The Illustrated Guide to the Night Sky” p88, Quarto
1993

¹²
J. Davis “Beyond Pluto” p63, Cambridge University Press 2001

¹³
J. Bagby “Evidence for a
Tenth Planet or Massive Solar Companion beyond Uranus” 1982

¹⁴
Editorial Post-script,
(F.B.J.), ‘Kronos’ Journal, Vol. IX, No 3, Summer 1984

¹⁵
J. Bagby “Further
Speculations on Planet “X””, correspondence sent to the ‘Kronos’ Journal, Vol.
IX, No 3, Summer 1984

¹⁶
B. Akins “Pioneer Home:
Mission Status”
http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNStat.html
Updated 22nd February 2001

¹⁷
J.B.Murray Mon. Not. R.
Astron. Soc., 309, 31-34 (1999)

¹⁸
J.J. Matese, P.G. Whitman
and D.P. Whitmire, Icarus, 141, 354-336 (1999)

¹⁹
Correspondence from John
Lee re: academic criticism, 17th March 2004

²⁰
R. Britt "Mysterious
Object Might be First Extrasolar Planet Photographed"
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/brown_dwarfs_020522.html
22 May 2002 Thanks to Theo

²¹
A. Lloyd “Winged Disc:
The Dark Star Theory” 2001, Available from the author

²²
Correspondence from John
Lee, aka Maurice Devon, ‘The Real Deal’, 22nd March 2004

²³
W. Cruttenden and V. Dayes “Understanding Precession of the
Equinox: Evidence our Sun may be part of a Long Cycle Binary system” Fall 2003
http://newfrontiersinscience.com/Members/v02n01/a/NFS0201a.shtml

²⁴
Binary Research Institute “Evidence: Angular Momentum”
http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/evidence/angular.shtml

²⁵
J. Cater “The Ultimate Reality”, with thanks to Dean from the
‘Cosmic Conspiracies’ post-board.

²⁶
D. Whitehouse "'Failed star' found nearby" 15th January
2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2660953.stm